Friday Links 21-27

Friday Links 21-27

No random section today! I am catching up with my podcasts and really enjoyed the one about Sad Days. It also seems that climate change will affect more of our life sooner than most expected. Management How to Motivate Your Team [Comic] - another good strip from Basic Instructions We should allow sad days, not just sick days [Podcast] - I certainly could have used a few sad days … and maybe I took them ...

6 August 2021 · 4 min · Christof Damian
Friday Links 21-26

Friday Links 21-26

Because I am travelling at the moment we have another double pack. Good stuff on management this week and depressing on the environment as usual. I haven’t decided if I’ll add a anti-cryptocurrency section or if I just leave it out. For now it is in random. Management The 25 Micro-Habits of High-Impact Managers - I am not sure what is so micro about them, but still not bad for a list like this ...

30 July 2021 · 6 min · Christof Damian
Friday Links 21-25

Friday Links 21-25

Lots of technology links and longer reads today. Management The Planning Fallacy - what to do about underestimating Limits to one Product Backlog - 3 - continuation, but I am slowly loosing interest Windmills: Can Scrum be fixed? - Ron is still on a mission Sharing our Engineering Career Framework with the world - another one. It has a lot of different roles, which is nice Why ‘bring solutions not problems’ doesn’t work - I recently started wondering about this and some other common advice too ...

16 July 2021 · 4 min · Christof Damian
Friday Links 21-23

Friday Links 21-23

Sorry for the long post, but this is again for two weeks. A few podcasts and lots of blog posts about the usual topics. The random selection also got a bit out of hand. Managment Limits to one Product Backlog - 1 - PO on team or feature There’s no ‘I’ in burnout “How do you give someone new work even as they’re drowning under the existing work?” ...

2 July 2021 · 7 min · Christof Damian
Friday Links 21-22

Friday Links 21-22

I was off last Friday, so this is a double dose. Remote work is probably a topic which will stay with us for a while, but it seems people want to start a war about it. Maybe it is OK to like different things here? Management Building an Incident Management Response Team - do something like that or similar ...

18 June 2021 · 6 min · Christof Damian